Physiotherapist

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Physiotherapist

The closing date is 04 August 2026

We are seeking two highly skilled and motivated Physiotherapists to join our team, delivering assessment and treatment to patients within the community, including their own homes and care settings across East Cornwall. You will work closely with the Early Intervention Home First Team and the Community Rehabilitation Team to support patients’ independence, recovery, and wellbeing.

• Providing specialist physiotherapist assessment and interventions tailored to patients’ individual needs.
• Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to ensure effective and timely care.
• Supervising and supporting junior staff and contributing to their development within the service.

This is an excellent opportunity to make a meaningful difference within a supportive and integrated community team.

• To manage a defined caseload of patients with complex needs within the Community setting using evidence-based practice, physiotherapy process and patient‑centered principles.
• To provide a high standard physiotherapy to the service, performing advanced assessments of patients including those with highly complex presentations, and from this formulating a diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To operate as a practitioner being the first contact for soon requests to help both prevent hospital admission and facilitate early discharge.
• To have an active role with the triage of new referrals coming into the teams.
• To provide leadership and support for junior staff through supervision, training, and appraisal as well as leading physiotherapy students.
• To participate in the planning and development of physiotherapy services.
• To cover a 7‑day Rota.
• Model and deliver excellent evidence based clinical care, working as an autonomous Practitioner.
• To support the community rehabilitation and re‑ablement model in line with a “one workforce” culture across services, settings, and sectors in the community and step‑down intermediate care settings.

• Professional Qualification – Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy.
• Current Professional registration – HCPC.
• Post graduate qualification to diploma level or equivalent relevant experience or evidence of professional knowledge acquired through specialist courses.

• Good teaching ability/educational experience providing training in a range of subjects on a regular basis.

• High level of specialist assessment and treatment skills.

• Broad range of post graduate experience in medical, surgical, orthopaedic, and neurological settings.
• A broad range of clinical experience in a variety of community and inpatient settings.
• Extensive experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.
• Comprehensive experience of working as a physiotherapist with patients with complex conditions.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

St. Barnabas Hospital Saltash and Liskeard Hospital, Liskeard.